IES Eladio Cabañero is a state secondary school for students aged 12-18 (Compulsory Secondary Education 12-16/ Upper
Secondary Education 16-18). The school has a current enrolment of 520 students with a team of 50 teachers. It operates on a 6 period 55-minute schedule from 8.30 am to 2.30 pm with a 30-minute break.
The school is located in Tomelloso, a mid-sized town with a population of about 37,000. Tomelloso is 180km south of Madrid, in the Autonomous Community of Castilla La Mancha, the land of Cervantes and Don Quixote.
Our aims are:
• To provide an enjoyable, challenging, and purposeful learning environment for every student so that they can achieve their
full potential
• To help all pupils acquire the values, skills, knowledge, and attitudes to prepare them for life after school.
• To celebrate diversity.
• To nurture self-esteem, confidence, and pride in one’s achievements.
• To build a positive partnership between students, staff, parents, and the local community.
• To encourage responsible environmental behaviour.
• To promote language learning.
• To raise awareness of Europe’s language and cultural diversity and European democratic values.
• To integrate ICT into teaching and learning.
Over the years our school has been involved in different national and international projects. Thus, it is worth mentioning:
– The Watchtower of Languages, whose aim was to “coordinate activities of various kinds related to language learning”.
– KODAK Project, aimed to “establish shared strategies to incorporate language competence in all subjects of the
curriculum”.
– ICT Seminar: a seminar was held for 4 years with the aim of “exchanging experiences in the use of ICT: educational use of
ICT, School 2.0, etc., and sharing news, doubts, strategies, problems, etc., on the use of ICT in schools”.
– The New Literacy, an innovation project aimed to “promote the development of oral and written expression”.
– KODAK2 Collaborative Group (2014-2015), whose main objective was “the need to improve comprehension and linguistic
expression in both oral and written form in our pupils, being aware of the importance of this in the teaching and learning
process, as well as becoming familiar with new techniques and working methods”.
– Semina rEvalúa: new forms of evaluation, academic year 2016-2017.
– Erasmus+ Project KA1 “Ludus”, with mobilities to the United Kingdom, Finland, Greece, Italy and Malta; aimed to
incorporate oral skills in all subjects so that students improve this competence.
– Seminar Improving teaching digital competence at IES Eladio Cabañero, academic year 2017-2018.
– Teacher study groups: Myths in Nutrition and Democratic participation through the institutions of the European Union I,
academic year 2018-2019.
– Teacher study group: Democratic participation through the institutions of the European Union IIand the seminar Improving
teaching competence in ICT tools, academic years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021.
– European Parliament Ambassador School Programme since 2017, which aims to promote democratic values and
European citizenship among young people.
-Euroscola 2020 in Strasbourg and Euroscola online 2021.
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